Show I 1 Things Few feio New Yorkers Know About New York There Is in gold at the bottom of the East river The treasure treasure treasure treas treas- ure was aboard a British ship that sank there in 1870 Many attempts have been made to recover the money money money mon mon- ey but they all failed The Bronx has its own flag Bag flag Ever Every body knows that the Statue of Liberty Liber Liber- ty carries a torch in her right hand Know what she holds in her left Its It's a book representing Law which has on it in block letters the date July 4 1776 sign signifying ying liberty based on an law Next time you pass Grants Grant's tomb and you want to show your friend how much you know mow about New York raise his eyebrows by pointing out that the generals general's body is encased in three coffins I New York has 36 buildings that are 36 stories high or higher There I Iare are only 20 such buildings in the rest of the country Yes the Big Town has the big buildings the big heads heads and and the e rest of the country has most of the big hearts The first New York census showed that it had bad 1000 people and 20 houses In the early century century cen cen- tury South Water and Front streets were covered with water and Broad Broadstreet Broadstreet Broadstreet street was an inlet used as a canal I City Hall park is now a gathering gatherIng gather gather- i Ing place for mendicants and pretzel salesmen but its it's rich in hi history It J was in that park the Declaration of Independence was first read to the i American army In the early i days of New York the political big shots used to tax the Indians for protection So you jou think racketeering racketeering is something new eh 1 The Staten Island ferry opened its I run in 1713 And through all those years it has been woo I During the Revolutionary war warthe war warthe i the first attack on a battleship by a I submarine occurred in New York harbor They used to hold steamship steamship steamship steam steam- ship races on the Hudson by j New York city owns I i and operates a fleet of ferryboats ferryboats' No wonder Mayor LaGuardia is I pugnacious He has even had a punching bag installed at City hall Incidentally Fiorello has a ti tiger tiger ti ti- ger skin and head in his home as asA asa asa a mark of his victory over ye olde Tammany tiger Buy Buy Defense Bonds Bonds- A prof at McGill university has discovered some vitamin pills that are death on hangovers The pills arent aren't ready for the market yet One of the middleweight fighters is in in the bastile Got leave came home to see the wife wile and kids and refused to go back One of ot the lovelier Irish femme movie stars of only a few seasons ago is broke In town That Morgan fellow on the air is a refreshing relief relic from most comics The Japs i may be clever in imitating the production production production pro pro- of all nations but Id I'd like to see em come out with an almond almond- shaped monocle almond I I Radio Row w is giggling over a are are- recent recent re re- I cent broadcast from a West Coast hoosegow One of the inmates warbled warbled warbled war war- I bled We Did It Before And We Can Do It Again Life Lile and I Time are rumored due for a shakeup shake- shake up among the staffs Clare I Boothes Boothe's trip to India is to interview interview interview inter inter- view Nehru She read three I Ion on him before departing Howard Howard Howard How How- I ard Hughes the flier iller may become chief of the Air Training Cadets of at America which is being privately financed by okay Anne I Shirley the divorcee actress actress actress- and and i I Roger Pryor being melted from fromAnn fromAnn I Ann Sothern are salving each others other's others other's oth oth- oth-I oth othIer's ers er's wounds Typewriter Ribbons Christopher Morley There are some literary critics who remind me of a gong gont at a grade crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train tram roars b by H. H W. W Beecher Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven Henny I just to taught a my wife wile how bow to drive a acar car t week Im I'm teaching her how t to aim it Lester Rice The crowd as one person patted him on the back with their lungs James Cannon Hes He's one oae of the theold theold theold old songs of New York Vina Delmar She was exquisite She had the face ace of oi the month Faith Baldwin She had that special bloom which only women in love are permitted permitted permitted per per- happiness was luminous in her eyes arrogant in her walk and shaped like a kiss upon her mouth Charles Barnet One of those sappy dames who parted her hair in the muddle T. T Dorsey If It we dont don't get some harmony soon well we'll all swing General MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur Only those are fit to liv live who are not afraid to die Buy Buy Defense BondsMan BondsMan Bonds Bonds- Man Wan About New York A new system of protection against saboteurs is being installed in many defense plants by Stromberg-Carl- Stromberg son engineers Aptly enough tests have shown the system is sensitive I enough to detect rats scampering across the floor Broadway I amateur sleuths are arc claiming the blonde who bit Dorothy Thompsons Thompson's finger in that Heil Hitler incident Is 1 The Duchess as she is known around the racetracks 2 A St. St Moritz tenant 3 A time one gal p pal of Millionaire Stillman n. n I. I |